Gibson beat me to it, I wish they didnt rotate the camera today

^ Good shot showing the height of the track near the entrance to the Crypt. Some thought it would be low enough to touch but, look at the people standing below. Not as low as it looks in the webcam.

DB looks better with each piece they add. I am amazed by this ride! Kudos to B&M, Adena, CF and all involved. I can't wait to ride!

Earlier I saw a couple people at the end (start?) of the brake run. I wonder if they were prepping the area for the final piece to be installed.

So why is it not possible for the final track piece to be installed today? Especially given the impending snow storm??

My prediction, Jan 26th: D-back track work complete!!

They are done with the 2 pieces (almost) its looking good!

lift work should be done today.

Track work expected to be completed today

January 26, 2009

Track pieces #119 and #120 were installed this morning on Diamondback, leaving the construction crew with just piece #129 left to install to complete the track work on Kings Island's new $22 million roller coaster.

The final piece of track is expected to be installed this afternoon. You can watch this momentous occasion live on the Diamondback webcam.

- Don Helbig

^^Yay!!!

Good thing too, if this upcoming snowstorm tomorrow really is the 'monstah' (for my SFNE friends) as the weather honks say it could be!?

They should focus the webcam just on the final track area for this afternoon.

I agree smurf

Will the impending creeping white death impeed track piece #129 from being lifted in to place today?

Stay tunned to the Diamondback construction webcam to find out.

Looks like the cranes are still manuvering around the drop section in to the splash, I see no action by #129 yet. Very excited to see DB completed today. Hopefully...

^ I agree too smurf.

Im kind of nervous. What is stopping someone from shimming up the support?

Hopefuly common sense but that didn't work out for a certain, well fenced off inverted B&M at a flag numbereed park. If someone is stupid enough to do it I don't know if there is any safety measure good enough to stop them. Refer to the Darwin awards.

I thought I heard they've laced the supports with a slow working acid. Jackson will be the test subject as I believe he has been recorded as hugging one of the supports last season. We'll watch. And learn.

I think they are going to add a spiral stair case down like behemoth has.

http://rcdb.com/ig4005.htm?picture=22 Can be seen here.

Now see to me that looks tacky i would prefer like just a normal staircase.

I think they just finished working on the drop into the splashdown. Hopefully they move onto the final piece now.

Today is one of those day where you think "OK, The circuit is complete LETS RIDE IT!!"

edit- webcam is working now.

not for me

I think the workers are on lunch break. Which sucks because I have to be to work at 2.

^ Good shot showing the height of the track near the entrance to the Crypt. Some thought it would be low enough to touch but, look at the people standing below. Not as low as it looks in the webcam.

DB looks better with each piece they add. I am amazed by this ride! Kudos to B&M, Adena, CF and all involved. I can't wait to ride!

Yeah, that was me. In one of the pictures on here it looked as if I could have reached up and touched the bottom of the box portion of the track. It looks like I may have been wrong. Oh well. It was just a thought, anyway. I'd have to be insane to try that with a train coming through, even though touching the bottom of the box probably wouldn't hurt me, but still.

Diamondback Compared to the size of the Crypt building... makes you really question the term "Giant Top Spin"!

I can not wait to see this on opening day.

Yeah the webcam isn't working for me. Maybe it's because my school is blocking it or something.

Yeah! I cant wait for this thing to open!!!!!! Its almost complete! (the trackwork at least)

We got a crane at #129.

The webcam is working fine for me, and it's showing that one of the white cranes has now moved over to the area where the final piece of track will be installed.

While the crane is there, and it almost looks like it's attached to the piece, it doesn't look like the piece has moved in the last hour. Nor does it look like anyone is around it. They still have plenty of time left today to get that piece in!!

::tears:: I have to go to work now and the web cam isn't working for me. lol oh well

Just guessing about track height above the midway, but we know the pullout of the first drop is roughly 15 feet or so above the midway, so I would expect that to be as close to the midway as any of the track comes. Seems like a reassonable amount of clearance, plus we don't know how the park will transform the midway with gardens, paths and fences. Im sure it would require a great deal of effort to get dangerously close to the Diamondback track.

The webcam is being hit or miss for me. Maybe too much traffic? Who knows.

Edit: For anyone that the webcam is working for, would you mind posting the pictures?